A scarce map of Kos
CORONELLI, Vincenzo Maria.
Isola di Stanchio, o Lango
Venice: Accademia Cosmografica degli Argonauti', c.1700. Plan with separately-printed border, total 255 x 330mm.
Some creasing.
A sketch map of the the island of Kos, within a frame-like border surmounted with the arms of Cosimo III de Medici (1642-1723, published in a variant edition of the 'Teatro delle città e porti principali dell'Europa'.
The map was published when as Venice celebrated the recapture of much of Dalmatia during the Sixth Ottoman-Venetian War (or the 'Morean War' , 1684-99). Their joy was brief, as the Ottomans reclaimed their losses in the Seventh War (1714-18).
Stock ID : 23371
£350
£350
A scarce map of Kos
CORONELLI, Vincenzo Maria.
Isola di Stanchio, o Lango
Venice: Accademia Cosmografica degli Argonauti', c.1700. Plan with separately-printed border, total 255 x 330mm.
Some creasing.
A sketch map of the the island of Kos, within a frame-like border surmounted with the arms of Cosimo III de Medici (1642-1723, published in a variant edition of the 'Teatro delle città e porti principali dell'Europa'.
The map was published when as Venice celebrated the recapture of much of Dalmatia during the Sixth Ottoman-Venetian War (or the 'Morean War' , 1684-99). Their joy was brief, as the Ottomans reclaimed their losses in the Seventh War (1714-18).
Stock ID : 23371
£350
£350